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May 19, 2025

welcome to katelynn's digital garden 🌿

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a note from the gardener

Hi! I’m so glad you’re here - this has been a long time in the making, and I’m excited to share with you. Medicine of the Turtle is a digital garden where I chronicle my journey of noticing and the things I ask and learn along the way.

A digital garden is a living, evolving space. It’s not a blog with a linear post timeline. Notes are added, edited, or re-seeded over time. This makes it rich and organic — but also harder to “catch up with” or casually follow.

This newsletter will act as the gate, offering a path for you to wander. It will come out every two weeks and have a featured reflection, a delight photo and an invitation.

more about the digital garden, its title, and where to start reading →

featured reflection

From Isaiah’s vision of majesty to a woman’s quiet, desperate faith in Matthew, this note explores how divine power is not distant, but flowing from the edges in abundance. It asks: What if, by following Jesus’ lead, we really can live in daily encounters with the healing presence of God?

more from “on easter” →

delight found in noticing

🌸 Massively overgrown gardenias tucked in an out-of-the-way corner of Randolph. The breeze and the clouds and the sun, with the swaying flowers and red brick. Thank you.

more delights to inspire you →

today’s invitation

Step under the waterfall of God’s love.

Really picture it — a powerful, unstoppable waterfall, flowing just for you.

Right now, even as you read this email, His invitation is simple: pause, and step beneath it. Feel its strength. Let it wash away all the noise, all the ways we try to cover ourselves up. It’s refreshing. It’s life-giving.

Every day, we have this choice: To sit on the bank, maybe catch a splash or two, maybe just watch from a distance… Or — to throw caution to the wind and step right into it.

It takes courage. To believe you’re truly, deeply known and loved — with no extra conditions.

more of His daily invitations →

in closing

Thanks for being here — it means a lot to share this space with you. 🤗 If you enjoyed this, consider forwarding it to someone who might enjoy it too. Or come say hello — I’d love to know what you’re growing. 👋🏻

🌿 katelynn

katelynnbarlowe.com/medicine-of-the-turtle

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